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Sunday, September 19, 2010

I sat down yesterday and wanted to do a simple video about playing perhaps the most classic beginner mountain dulcimer tune known to man- Go Tell Aunt Rhody. What emerged instead was a four video min-series taking Rhody from the very start all the way to showing how to sing the melody while playing the harmony, with general beginner advice sprinkled into the mix.If you are following this, then please do go read my first post featuring Aunt Rhody, from February 2009, HERE, and click on the tab I provided there for free. If you click on the picture of the TAB, it will enlarge to a nice size that you can then print out and use for your own practice purposes.Then you can follow along with each of these four videos in sequence- videos #10-13, otherwise known as 'Rhody1-4'. I hope they are helpful to you!:

(Be sure to click below on "continue reading the rest of this post here..." to continue with the other 3 videos and the rest of this post)

5 comments:

Strumelia,Wonderful videos! Of greatest help to me is #4 on playing and singing. I've not tried it much yet would like to become okay at doing both. I'm too self-conscious about making noise with my voice-- when will I learn that everything's not about me? :-)Thanks, Lisa!

You are an excellent teacher. I saw someone play a dulcimer on the front porch of one of Lincoln's log cabins in New Salem, Il and fell it love with it. Just got my dulcimer off Craigslist and you are such a wonderful help to beginners. Hope you keep up these videos and explain even harder songs. Keep up the good work! Joy Black

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WELCOME!...Click on the "continue reading..." link under each post to see the whole post with all its TAB and pictures. IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER, IT'S BEST TO READ THIS BLOG FROM THE BEGINNING, where I explain the very basic ideas and methods, and where I post the very simplest TAB songs to help get a beginner started. This blog was started on Feb 14th 2009. Look right below here TO CLICK ON THE POSTS SORTED BY DATE, and read posts from the earliest dates forward. You can click on any previous month, and that will bring up a page showing all the posts from that month. If you click on a picture or TAB of a song it will get BIGGER so you can see it more clearly and you can PRINT OUT THE TAB for your personal home practice use. Thanks for visiting!